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The limits for foreign buyers are rewritten by decree: three apartments and a cap per development

Decree 30/2025 rewrites the foreigner limits by decree: three apartments, eighty per cent cap, ten-million-euro investment

· Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · Decree with force of law · Superseded

The first comprehensive decree regulating foreigners’ acquisition rules: acquisition limits widened (three apartments, six for recognising-state citizens, villas in estates), one-year transfer and seventy-five-business-day fee deadlines, eighty per cent cap per project, ten-million-euro investment threshold, two-year window for applications with a construction permit or planning approval, thirty-six months for completed delivered dwellings, share transfers with the Land Registry Director’s approval, and transfer of investment property.

Before
The statutory rules of Law 39/2024 (one property, six-month transfer deadline, twenty-million-euro threshold).
After
The decree limits and deadlines now carried by decree 89/2026.

Concepts

Sources for this event

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

  1. [1]
    Official Gazette No. 165 of 14 August 2025: Decree with force of law 30/2025 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners

    Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Legislation and gazettes · 14 August 2025 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · register entry

  2. [2]
    Announcement on the Decree with Force of Law Regulating the Rules on Acquisition of Immovable Property by Foreigners (Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce)

    Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce · Professional and legal sources · 14 August 2025 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · register entry

Identifier event-2025-08-14-decree-30-2025 · last verified 14 September 2026 · Open data · challenge